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Monday, November 17, 2014

My own paper presentation at NTA

In addition to commenting on the Green-Phillips paper noted in the preceding blog entry, I also presented one of my recent papers, forthcoming in the Connecticut Law Review, entitled "Multiple Myopias, Multiple Selves, and the Under-Saving Problem." Jason Seligman of Ohio State offered thoughtful and helpful comments. This was my first, and perhaps last, presentation of this paper, which I finished early last summer, as consumer demand has generally been higher for my Piketty paper (as well as for a short piece on corporate tax reform that I will post on SSRN after it appears in Tax Notes next month).

A link of the slides for my talk is available here, and a link for the paper is available here.

Slide 5 contains a little table that ought to have been in my paper, and that will indeed be (with some expansion) in the final version. Here is an initial expansion over what I had in the slide:

About Me

I am the Wayne Perry Professor of Taxation at New York University Law School. My research mainly emphasizes tax policy, government transfers, budgetary measures, social insurance, and entitlements reform. My most recent books are (1) Decoding the U.S. Corporate Tax (2009) and (2) Taxes, Spending, and the U.S. Government's March Toward Bankruptcy (2006). My other books include Do Deficits Matter? (1997), When Rules Change: An Economic and Political Analysis of Transition Relief and Retroactivity (2000), Making Sense of Social Security Reform (2000), Who Should Pay for Medicare? (2004), Taxes, Spending, and the U.S. Government's March Towards Bankruptcy (2006), Decoding the U.S. Corporate Tax (2009), and Fixing the U.S. International Tax Rules (forthcoming). I am also the author of a novel, Getting It. I am married with two children (boys aged 24 and 21) as well as three cats. For my wife Pat's quilting blog, see Patwig’s Blog.